Assessing plant-nutrient relationships in highly invaded Californian grasslands using non-normal probability distributions

Applied Vegetation Science

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 343-350

  Gea Izquierdo, Guillermo ^a,b   Gennet, Sasha ^a   Bartolome, James W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Instituto Nacional de Investigacion y Tecnologia Agraria y Alimentaria   (Spain)

Author keywords

GLM; GLMM; Invasive species; Nassella pulchra; Negative binomial distribution; Skewed distribution; Soil phosphorus

Indexed keywords

NASSELLA PULCHRA;

EID: 46049096329     PISSN: 14022001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1654-109X.2007.tb00433.x     Document Type: Article

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